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Only the good die young. “3 Years Without Tahir Elçi…

In Uncategorized on November 30, 2018 at 05:30

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3 Years Without Tahir Elçi…

Bianet :: English
Diyarbakır Bar Association Chair Tahir Elçi, who was murdered in front of the Four-Legged Minaret in Sur in Diyarbakır in 2015, has been commemorated by his colleagues, friends, relatives, family and loved ones.

In other news:

UK court rejects Turkish extradition request for media boss

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent

Judge refuses case against Hamdi Akin İpek on grounds it was ‘politically motivated’

A judge has dismissed as “politically motivated” an extradition request by the Turkish government for a dispossessed media proprietor to be sent for trial in Ankara.

Why are people in Turkey joking about onions on Twitter?

BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Turkish people have taken to social media to make jokes about what they call the “onion crisis”.

 

Remember the old man who lost everything in fire but saved his kitten? People bought a new house for him and his three cats. They are so happy now! from Turkey

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#Anthropology roundup: “Claude Lévi-Strauss: Remembering the French anthropologist on his 110th birth anniversary…

In Uncategorized on November 29, 2018 at 05:40

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Claude Lévi-Strauss: Remembering the French anthropologist on his 110th birth anniversary

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Why Some People Thrive in Winter

The Atlantic
How the Inca Used Intricately-Knotted Cords, Called Khipu, to Write Their Histories, Send Messages & Keep Records

,Open Culture by Josh Jones,

Those of us who learned to write in a (mostly) phonetic language learned to take it for granted that writing should correspond (roughly) to sound. Then we learned of the pictographs, ideographs, and logograms of the Chinese alphabet, or of Ancient Egyptian or Mayan, or of other non-phonemic orthographies, and we were forced to revise earlier assumptions. Those who pursue the study of symbolic systems even further will eventually come to meet khipu, the Incan system of record-keeping that uses intricately knotted rope.

Anthropologist visited remote North Sentinel tribe decades ago and survived

KSDK.com

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#Journalism agenda: “Here’s why low-credibility news seems to dominate Twitter…

In Uncategorized on November 28, 2018 at 11:01

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Here’s why low-credibility news seems to dominate Twitter

The Next Web by Tristan Greene  /

With the entire world seemingly up in arms over “fake news,” you’d think it would have been wiped out by now. Yet low-credibility content continues to thrive on social media thanks to the disproportionately influential effect that social media bots have on humans. A team of researchers from Indiana University at Bloomington recently conducted a ground-breaking study to determine how low-quality news sites manage to reach so many people with dubious articles. And, as you might guess, the answer is bots. The problem TNW spoke with Filippo Menczer, the professor who led the research. He told us that despite the…

Canada introduces a $595 million package in support of journalism

Nieman Journalism Lab by Christine Schmidt

While Americans spent last week pardoning (and eating) turkeys, our neighbors to the north were focused on bringing home the bacon for Canadian journalism.

 

Facebook, photojournalism and Gmail plug-ins: Here is your weekly journalism news update

Journalism.co.uk
Pushed for time? Catch up with this week’s coverage from Journalism.co.uk

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#Cyberculture agenda: “MIT Media Lab announces this year’s Disobedience Prize winners: #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM

In Uncategorized on November 28, 2018 at 07:01

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MIT Media Lab announces this year’s Disobedience Prize winners: #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

For the second year now, the MIT Media Lab has awarded a “Disobedience Prize” of $250,000, no strings attached, awarded to people whose disobedient work has benefitted society; this year’s prize is share among three leaders of the #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM movements: BethAnn McLaughlin, Sherry Marts, and Tarana Burke.

These charts show how Asia is dominating industrial-robot adoption

 MIT Technology Review

Europe and America have far fewer robot workers than we might expect them to have.

 

 

 

 

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Turkey’s inadvertent tribute to Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob 

In Uncategorized on November 28, 2018 at 03:36

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R.I.P to Stephen Hillenburg, the visionary creator of “SpongeBob SquarePants”…

The only good part of this historical castle renovation fkup is what in the end looks like…

 

Historic castle in Istanbul turns into ‘SpongeBob’ after restoration

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#anthropology roundup: “Who are the Sentinelese? 60,000-yr-old tribe in focus after American John Chau’s death

In Uncategorized on November 27, 2018 at 11:31

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The ‘isolated’ tribe that killed a 26-year-old American missionary has been contacted by the outside world at least 11 times before — here’s what happened

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Citing disease risk to tribe, group urges halt to hunt for dead American

 Yahoo News

Forensic Anthropologists in California Sift Through Rubble from Wildfire

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At urging of Israeli academics, European anthropologists boycott Israeli colleges in Judea and Samaria

 Cleveland Jewish News

Isolated Tribe Kills American With Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

The New York Times

Seattle police return artifacts found at estate sale to Mexican government

The Seattle Times

An experiment 45 years in the making, a Fairbanks woman revisits a notorious anthropology experiment in the documentary ‘The Raft’

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Method

 The Nation.

FEFU archaeologists have found the oldest burials in Ecuador

 EurekAlert

Businesses As Communities of Practice and Maintaining the Anthropological Perspective from Within

NAPA by Brandon Meyer
The British Social Anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, with a group of Trobriand Islanders – who did not actually wear ties…

MAKING SENSE OF THE WORLD: THE IMPLICIT THEORIES AND LANGUAGE PRACTICES OF BUSINESS

What Google Maps Don’t Show You

SAPIENS by Stephen E. Nash  /

When I was a boy, my father and I used to plan road trips together. We would go to our local American Automobile Association (AAA) office and get stacks and stacks of maps (which were “free”—with a paid membership, of course). State maps, city maps, country maps. Once I had them, I felt like the road trip had already begun.

Today, with three boys of my own, I still like to plan and take road trips. But the planning now is totally different. Instead of going to the AAA days or weeks in advance, we simply open Google Maps on our phones. We type in a destination, learn the fastest route, and find out about the best places to visit. My sons feel the excitement, and I still do too—but not as much as when I was a kid. Without paper maps, the discovery inherent in old-school planning is somehow missing for me. The process now just isn’t as adventurous or inspiring.

1.5ºC: The Future and Present of Anthropology in an Era of Climate Change

 anthro{dendum} by Adam Fleischmann
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Anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Adam Fleischmann

 

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Paranoid style forces Open Society Foundations to pull out of Turkey…

In Uncategorized on November 27, 2018 at 10:16

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George Soros’s Open Society Foundations to pull out of Turkey

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Reuters in Istanbul

Decision comes after Turkish president accuses billionaire philanthropist of trying to destroy nations

Soros foundation to end work in Turkey amid ‘baseless claims’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition
The Open Society Foundation said “baseless claims” about its work made it impossible to continue.
Facing Attack, George Soros’s Foundation Will Shut Down in Turkey

NYT > Turkey by By SARAH MERVOSH
Open Society Foundations plans to close its office in Istanbul. It claims that the Turkish government has falsely accused it of playing a role in uprisings

Moody’s Expects Contraction, Fitch Recession in Turkey’s Economy in 2019

Bianet :: English
International credit rating agency Moody’s has announced that while the economy of Turkey will grow by 1.5 percent in 2018, it will contract by 2 percent in the following year. Fitch has also warned that the country could go into recession in 2019.

Turkey jobless rate hits 11.1 pct in August, highest since early 2017

Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey’s unemployment rose to 11.1 percent in the July-September period, official data showed on Nov. 15, hitting its highest level since early last year and up from a revised 10.6 percent in the June-August period.

Turkey as the Country with Highest Inflation Rate in Europe

Bianet :: English,
Turkish Statistical Institute has announced the annual consumer inflation in October as 25.24 percent. This figure shows that Turkey is the country with the highest inflation rate in Europe. What about the inflation rates of other European countries?

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New photo from Facebook November 27, 2018 at 06:26AM

In Uncategorized on November 27, 2018 at 07:05

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#Europe agenda: France fuel protests: Police in Paris fire tear gas [And Turkish Foreign Ministry condemns (!)

In Uncategorized on November 26, 2018 at 13:46

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EU hates cryptocurrency and likes blockchain – for all the wrong reasons

The Next Web by Mix

The European Commission – the executive arm of the European Union – is a supporter of the common “blockchain, not Bitcoin” adage, it seems. At a blockchain roundtable session earlier this week, the Commission announced a new distributed ledger initiative that aims to transform the digital services space. Not only that, a number of banking giants, including Spain-based BBVA, are already part of the project. Along with “industry leaders” and “innovative startups,” the Commission also discussed ways to support the development of the distributed ledgers and create the “right conditions” for the technology to flourish. The initiative, called “International Association

France fuel protests: Police in Paris fire tear gas

BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Tear gas and water cannon are used against stone-throwing demonstrators on the Champs Elysées.

France fuel protests: Tear gas and water cannon fired by police

BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Police in Paris use tear gas and water cannon to disperse people protesting rising fuel prices.

Swiss vote no in sovereignty referendum

BBC News | Europe | World Edition
A proposal calling for Swiss law to override international law is rejected, early results show.

The hypocrisy of Brexit

Ideas on Europe by Jon Danzig

Here’s the hypocrisy of Brexit. Brexiters reject the Brexit deal on offer. But Britain is not allowed to reject Brexit.

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Women in Istanbul wanted to march against violence and they ended up being exposed to violence…

In Uncategorized on November 26, 2018 at 11:56

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